Quantitative shearography: error reduction by using more than three measurement channels

More Policy Production than Poverty Reduction

ABSTRACf A wealth of solutions to poverty have been proposed, with little understanding of the forces required to turn a sound idea into an "implementable" program. A system approach is suggested to overcome this deficiency. This implies analyzing the effects of antipoverty measures on other elements of a society and a polity and the "feedback" effects of changes in these other elements on the ...

Harm reduction: more than just side-effects.

1 in favour of the extremely controversial practice of decriminalising drugs of abuse is surprising and disconcerting. When last has he sat in front of drug addicts who have lost their families through being addicted to drugs, or lost a job through a workplace accident related to cannabis abuse? 2 Or treated drug addicts from Switzerland, where they have failed to regulate substance abuse by pr...

Complete Growth Series of Coxeter Groups with more than Three Generators

Quasi Score is more efficient than Corrected Score in a general nonlinear measurement error model

We compare two consistent estimators of the parameter vector β of a general exponential family measurement error model with respect to their relative efficiency. The quasi score (QS) estimator uses the distribution of the regressor, the corrected score (CS) estimator does not make use of this distribution and is therefore more robust. However, if the regressor distribution is known, QS is asymp...

Quasi Score is more efficient than Corrected Score in a polynomial measurement error model

We consider a polynomial regression model, where the covariate is measured with Gaussian errors. The measurement error variance is supposed to be known. The covariate is normally distributed with known mean and variance. Quasi Score (QS) and Corrected Score (CS) are two consistent estimation methods, where the first makes use of the distribution of the covariate (structural method), while the l...